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Do you have some extra cash? The house will be packed. You could always sit in “Dining Room” eat dinner and get to listen. In another blog, I’ll get you some example music. Santa FE Bar aand Grill Pub t’s the place for always fun and fine music. Check these artisits out! Mary 

Friday  February 20     7:30 PM     $23 ADV.

 FAN MAN,  the SANTA FE REPORTER,   

& 98.1 KBAC RADIO FREE SANTA FE PRESENT 

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO 

WITH SPECIAL GUEST   AMY COOK

In June 2008, Alejandro Escovedo released his 9th solo album Real Animal. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T.Rex, Thin Lizzy), Real Animal is a collective journey through Escovedo’s various musical incarnations from punk rock to string quintets and is as introspective as it is retrospective. Recalling the people, places and influences that helped shape his career, Real Animal represents the primitive aspect of Escovedo’s music - the instinct, the urgency and a survivor mentality that fuels his musical passion.

 Escovedo was a founding member of the pioneering San Francisco-based punk band The Nuns in the mid-70’s. In the early 1980’s he moved to New York City, where he joined forces with fellow Bay Area punk scene veterans Chip and Tony Kinman in Rank & File, a band that forged the early 1980s country-punk sound that later became known as alternative country. After Rank & File relocated to Austin, Texas, Escovedo left the band and formed True Believers with his brother Javier. The critically acclaimed group disbanded in the late 1980s.

 In 1992, Escovedo embarked on a solo career with his debut album Gravity. Subsequent solo albums have included Thirteen Years (1993), With These Hands (1996), More Miles than Money: Live 1994-1996 (1998), Bourbonitis Blues (1999), and A Man Under the Influence (2001). In the late 1990s, he began developing a dramatic work, based on his songs about his father, with the Los Angeles theater company About Productions. The resulting composition, By the Hand of the Father, premiered to critical acclaim in 2000 with Escovedo performing his songs as part of the production. His last album, The Boxing Mirror, released in 2006 was produced by John Cale and traces Escovedo’s journey from the brink of death at the hands of Hepatitis C to renewed wellness and artistic creativity.

 Escovedo’s music has been widely lauded by the media, appearing in several high-profile publications including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, USA Today, PASTE, HARP and Entertainment Weekly. He was invited onstage by Bruce Springsteen to join The Boss and The E Street Band, playing Escovedo’s “Always A Friend” before a packed Toyota Center in Houston on April 14, 2008. He has also appeared on Conan O’Brian, The Today Show, The Tonight Show and performed at the Democratic National Convention in Denver to a wildly enthusiastic audience.  www.alejandroescovedo.com

AMY COOK

Amy Cook is a human. She can be found wherever there is a huge sky full of stars and a guitar. She is a lover and a fighter, in that order. She once lived in LA for its charm and nostalgia, now she lives in Austin because that other place lacked fireflies and a sense of hope. She is not altogether self-assured and is a tiny bit sentimental. She tends to the garden of her music in an old trailer sitting on the bluff of a river somewhere, or on the front porch with sleeping dogs at her feet. Amy enjoys long walks on the beach, cheap hotel rooms, fancy hotel rooms, freedom, every songwriter trying to make a living, people who can say “I’m sorry,” and staying up late listening to records with friends. If her songs were fabric, they would be old and tattered and spun of fine silk in a faraway place. The rest I cannot say. Amy Cook has tales to tell.

www.myspace.com/amycookmusic

 TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT THE PUB & GRILL AT THE SFBC, AT THE LENSIC BOX OFFICE 988-1234, OR ONLINE AT www.ticketssantafe.org

 Saturday  February 21     8 PM     $15 Advance / $20 Door

The INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS

  SKI TOUR 2009 

The Infamous Stringdusters are the new vanguard of acoustic music. Well crafted songs, vivid arrangements

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